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Comment by LeifCarrotson | Hacker News Reader

I just logged out of my account everywhere, and turned off "remember me".

It's shocking how I'm catching myself just reflexively, almost subconsciously alt-tabbing to Firefox and typing "reddit.com".

Thanks, /u/spez, for helping me break the habit!

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Breaking the muscle memory has been the hardest part for me. I don't have that much investment in Reddit succeeding and I'll be damned if I don't try to tap the app on my phone 3 or 4 times a day still, even after deleting.

I deleted my account and my 3rd party app and I found myself reflexively tapping the now-empty spot on my home screen 5-10 times yesterday. Today I haven't and only went to the mobile site a couple times to see what's going on with the state of things, but left as soon as the first "Oops, this /r/AskReddit text-only post is NSFW, open in the app!" message came up.

I have however visited HN and kbin 5-10x more today.

I moved the Sync icon to a folder and replaced it with Hack (a hacker news app).

Good idea, I've followed suit.

I treat Reddit now like I do Facebook. Containers in Firefox, accessed only through VPN. It's no longer a reflex - I have to put in at least a little effort to view its content. With pi-hole and ublock origin too.

Replace re (enter) with ne (enter) and hang out in new. Hehe

> neddit.com

> redirect to CBS.com

am I missing something?

ne|ws.ycombinator.com

The other poster had it right, I get to HN by typing ne (enter) or n (enter) in my browser address bar.

Oh yeah, me too. Spaced which URL we were talking about.

I'm silly I guess... It's the first bookmark on my toolbar.

<Click> Hacker News

I get here by typing hc (I prefer the compact hckrnews layout)

Yeah same, either "ne" or "news" in address bar depending on how many "ne" things I've visited recently

I don’t know why they didn’t just offer API access at a fair price, it seems like it would have resulted in a better outcome than their current rock and hard place decision between backpedaling and never getting rid of the API awhile unprofitable, or getting rid of it and creating a diggv4 fiasco of the site being used to promote leaving the site.

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